Friday, May 23, 2014

Seniors at Codman Academy Charter Public School organized their own tour
of Codman Square in May to highlight the community’s assets and history. It
builds on "My Dot Tour," a youth tour of historic and cultural
strengths in Dorchester's Fields Corner, developed in 2010 by a local
collaborative including HBI.

Seniors at Codman
Academy Charter Public School organized a tour of Codman Square to highlight
the community’s assets and history in reaction to a French
travel advisory warning French tourists about walking in the neighborhoods
of Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan. Students’ efforts to convince the French
Consulate to retract the warning made national
news last fall and students have since been working to encourage people to
visit their community through a walking tour cleverly named “The D-Tour”.

The team of
teachers, students, and other community stakeholders involved in the tour are
currently seeking grant funding to develop physical installations to mark the
tour sites and a web-based platform to host research and engage visitors.